Category Archives: Current Events

A Spell for Democracy: Run, Al, Run!

Along with many millions of others, I’m celebrating Al Gore’s winning of the Noble Peace Prize today. He shares it with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Here’s what he said today: I am deeply honored to receive … Continue reading

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Christian Warlocks Strike Again!

Fire up a candle or three to put protection spells around the Staff of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. A Baptist minister is using his church’s website and internet radio show to call for death curses … Continue reading

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AlterNet: America’s Holy Warriors

AlterNet: America’s Holy Warriors is a story by Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. The book and the essay are both well worth reading, especially by those who think my essays on … Continue reading

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Have a happy and Civil New Year!

Phaedra and I would like to wish all our readers the very best for the coming civil new year—and may it be far more civil than this last one was! Continue reading

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